Combo photo taken on May 17, 2017 shows Yang Asong with his wife Yang Zengxiu in front of their house under construction (up) and in their pig farm (bottom) at Longzitang Village of Yunlong County, southwest China's Yunnan Province. Yang's five-member family, raising nearly 100 pigs now, got a net income of nearly 160,000 yuan (23,200 U.S. dollars) in 2016. To improve the living conditions and income for poverty-stricken villagers, mainly of Bai ethnic group living on farming in the mountains, local government founded pigs raising cooperative in 2013 under the support of country's poverty alleviation policy. More than 1,300 households have got benefits from the cooperative, which offers information and services on breeds, technology, forage, epidemic prevention and sales. (Xinhua/Yang Zongyou)
